SBACPAD
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Neural-inspired branch predictors achieve very low branch misprediction rates. However, previously proposed implementations have a variety of characteristics that make them challe...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
We present a scheme to compress branch trace information for use in snapshot-based microarchitecture simulation. The compressed trace can be used to warm any arbitrary branch pred...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
Computer architects and designers rely heavily on simulation. The downside of simulation is that it is very time-consuming — simulating an industry-standard benchmark on todayâ€...
CSIE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
2009
IEEE
With the pipeline deepen and issue width widen, the accuracy of branch predictor becomes more and more important to the performance of a microprocessor. State-of-theart researches...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
2009
IEEE
Insights into branch predictor organization and operation can be used in architecture-aware compiler optimizations to improve program performance. Unfortunately, such details are ...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper explores the role of branch predictor organization in power/energy/performance tradeoffs for processor design. We find that as a general rule, to reduce overall energy ...